BUNCH OF ITEMS GOT UNLISTED BY EBAY FOR NO REASON??? IS THIS HAPPENING TO ANYONE ELSE?
Hello,
I am a shoe seller her on eBay and today, I found out that a bunch of items that I had listing (thousands of views and hundreds of watchers) got unlisted for some reason. Is this happening to anyone else??
24 comments
femmefan1946
·3 years agoAnd on a related note, I just sold a book which I had listed since 2008. Shipping it today.
slippinjimmy
·3 years agoAnd I thought I had a good one with a sale on Monday for an item that had been listed since September 2013.
jnsvintageradioandtubes
·3 years agoYes, I have had that happen as well. When I perform the annual inventory check, I find I have the product on the shelf, but the listing is no longer on eBay. On the other hand, I have found I have items listed, that aren't on the shelf. It would be nice to have an inventory that is consistent but with over 500 items, it's a challenge and time consuming.
Jeff
reallynicestamps
·3 years agoIt's been happening for years -- in both directions.
My items on all my accounts are long tail. I sold a book a month or so ago that had been listed since 2008.
At one time eBay would add a note to my Active Listings when a title had been unsold for 16 months. It was a heads up to review those listings. I often took them down, rethought them, and then relisted the updated item after a week or so.
They stopped doing that a year or more ago.
In addition, Sold items will from time to time suddenly reappear.
The only ways I learn of these are if they sell again-- and my items tend to be OoaK-- or if I find them when I do a periodic Search by putting everything on the List into alphabetic order and look for duplicates (easy and I do find one or two every time) or they sound vaguely familiar, which I take down and confirm they are either Sold or Unsold.
EBay does not seem to care about this ongoing problem.
american-photography
·3 years agoAre you authorized to sell all those brand-name new shoes by those companies?
You appear to be selling large quantities and sizes of new Nikes, Asics, etc. like a shoe store would.
Where are you getting all your inventory for all those sizes???
Perhaps that is the issue.
toomuchstuffagain35
·3 years agoMaybe the same place the shoe stores do?
titipeo
·3 years agoI had a brand new, with tags and boxed winter overcoat that was auto-relisted every 30 days. I had this item up for some time, certainly more than 2 years, maybe 4-5 years if I think about it. Every now and then I will change the price to try and sell item depending on the season. One day, I deleted the listing as my +1 though that it will make a great bday gift to a mutual friend of ours, once we found out it was not the right sized I re-activated the listing back again, no change in wording, title, pictures. Within 2 weeks it was removed and I received a vero notification. I'm not going to waste my time & argue with eBay on this, there are other venues where I can put this for sale.
Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason for what eBay does, and if you look at their t&c, their actions are justified. It is their platfrom, their rules.
stephenmorgan
·3 years agoIt is possible that when you relisted the item it was brought to the top of the search for a while and someone saw it then turned it in because the perceived Vero violation.
Being listed for a long time it could have been deep down the search results and the person that turned it in had not found it yet.
fern*wood
·3 years agoI just saw a post on the shipping board by a seller stating many of his listings were just ended and he couldn't find them. I saw several sneaker listings ended today in his unsold list. He wondered if it was because he hadn't updated his shipping. Could it be something to do with the authenticity program?
grateful_shoes
OP3 years agoI appreciate the reply guys! So I do know about the reindexing every 30 days, however, whenever that happens it doesn't deactivate my listing or anything. Some of the listings that got closed were up for almost 2 years with no issues whatsoever. As for what I mean by "unlisting", I mean eBay literally ended my listing. I checked on my ended listing tab and saw all the listings eBay took down for no reason. I can relist, however, a lot of those listing has thousands of viewers, hundreds of sales, and hundreds of watchers. That data is valuable and I would like that data back for each listing that was ended.
ms.rodriguez*
·3 years agoIf you have an item up for 2 years and hundreds of watchers, that is not a good thing for me. As a seller, I will DELIBERATELY end all most ALL of my listings on day 29. I will tweak it a bit by dd more photos or new photos or adjust the price and then start it using SELL SIMILAR. Listings that keep relisting will sink lower and lower in the categories.
IF you can't find the listing, do a search of unsold by the title of the book and hopefully you can find. I would retweak it a bit if that is the only copy of the book.
albertabrightalberta
·3 years agoIf those listings were up for 2 years, during which you allowed them to be auto-relisted every 30 days, my guess is that they were ended for the reason shown in post 2 posted by @ebooksdiva .
toomuchstuffagain35
·3 years agoThe OP said they had hundreds of sales, so I don't see ebay delisting them just because they were "old" listings.
redlinear
·3 years ago@grateful_shoes I've never been able to find any trace of any listing that was ended BY eBay.
fashunu4eeuh
·3 years agoAs you may already know, eBay now counts views on a rolling 30-day period.
Lifetime views are not included. Every 30 days, the previous views are wiped off the listing, and the counter reset. See link below to the policy.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/listing-tips/page-views?id=4165
PS—By any chance, did eBay send you a notice with an explanation for the takedown?
1tuna
·3 years agowhen an item is ended by a seller it does not get deleted
ended listing will go to the unsold listings page
if you want to delete an item it needs to be done from the unsold items page
unsold items and deleted items are different things
have you looked at your unsold items page?
@grateful_shoes
inhawaii
·3 years agoWhat do you mean by "unlisted"?
Do you mean ended?
Can you give us an item number for one of these unlisted items?
44012
·3 years agoIs it possible the 30 days were up and they were just re-indexing? Maybe they have come back online?
Sorry this happened to you.
grateful_shoes
OP3 years agoI appreciate the reply, but all my items that got unlisted were all selling. Some of them even sell a few every day. This is unbelievable. Do you think eBay CS will be able to relist the items with the watchers and sold intact?
You do have about 10 unsold listings that ended today. All of which were ended by you.
reallynicestamps
·3 years agoall my items that got unlisted were all selling. Some of them even sell a few every day.
You should be able to relist those by going to your Sold Items and relisting from there.
No, all my listings are still there. But eBay does have a policy that says they will remove listings that haven’t sold in a while. There’s always a reason.
Removed Listings
m60driver
·3 years agoJust another good reason to occasionally end a listing and then relist with sell similar. Just yesterday I sold a book, always a slow selling category, that has been listed off and on for about 5 years.
shazzmc
·2 years agoMine became unlisted also. Only listed some new ones last week but they went into unlisted. Have relisted again but very time consuming